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The files consist of 3,100 never-before-seen documents, most of which date from the 1960s and ’70s, as well as a handful produced in the ’90s.

In an attempt to dispel the conspiracy theories that have surrounded the assassination, former President George H.W. Bush signed a bill in 1992 that set an Oct. 26, 2017, deadline for the documents to be released.

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Trump may have been responding to a Politico report published Friday which claimed that he was “likely to block” the release of at least some of the files.

Citing anonymous sources who were only referred to as “Trump administration and other government officials,” Politico suggested Trump was facing pressure from the CIA to keep some of the documents secret.

White House spokeswoman Lindsay Waters had told the publication that the White House wanted “to ensure that the maximum amount of data can be released to the public” by the Thursday deadline.

Yet Politico still reported there was only a “slim possibility” Trump would release the documents in full.

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Many historians will be pleased to have the opportunity to review the files.

“The American public deserves to know the facts, or at least they deserve to know what the government has kept hidden from them for all these years,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of a book about Kennedy, told The Associated Press last month.

Two Republican lawmaker, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina, had led a congressional effort to have the documents released, as reported by Fox News.

“The assassination of President Kennedy occurred at a pivotal time for our nation, and nearly 54 years later, we are still learning the details of how our government responded and what it may have known beforehand,” Grassley said in September.

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“Americans deserve a full picture of what happened that fateful day in November 1963,” he added.